Prep
- Gilbert B. Rodman, ‘Race … and Other Four-Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity’, in Forman and Neal (2012; the hyperlink takes you to the original journal article, which you might access through the campus library website). keywords: authenticity; cultural appropriation; cultural miscegenation; culture industry; essentialism.
- Video: Adam Neely, ‘Scotch Snaps in Hip-Hop’ (11 March 2019)
- Prelude: What He Brought to the Cypher
- Attendance
- Further Reading
- Kelefa Sanneh, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (2021)
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Wesley Morris, ‘For centuries, black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it’, New York Times (14 August 2019)
- Andrew Wondrich, Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924 (2003)
- Q&A: Race and Other Four-Letter Words
- Review: Story Maps Proposal Outline
- Takeaways
- Reading Notes for Next Time
For Next Time
- Paul Gilroy, ‘It’s a Family Affair’, in Neal and Forman (2012). keywords: afrocentricity, Afrocentrism; authenticity; black nationalism; creolisation; diaspora; essentialism; familialisation of politics, the; ‘hood, the; nationalism; race as family; trope.
